templar: focused charge vs shield charge

tengri

I am currently toying around with a 1-handed/shield templar/healer character and would appreciate some input. And he is a crafter, so skill points availability is an issue here, too.

I am looking for a gap closing move and those two come to mind - but which one to choose?
Because the second role of this char is a resto-staff healer, he is skilled more for mana than for stamina and I was thinking focused charge might be a better option and would allow more stamina reserves for actual melee combat.
On the other hand, the shielded assault morph looks almost too good to be ignored.

I know plenty of ppl are using shield charge left and right... still, are there focused charge users out there who might care to share some insights on using and the general usefulness of this skill?

Rofaka

I use Shield Charge to close the gap, and mana to cast vampire's bane, solar barrage, and a heal. If I were to use focused charge I would have to spend my valuable mana there, then again if you go full on magicka with almost no stamina, I think focused charge may be a better option.

ozgod22_eso

I find that Focused Charge tends to make me overshoot my target for some reason, maybe the animation is flawed. I've been using Critical Charge (2H) or Shield Charge (1H) as a gap closer.

Mortuum

IF your other role is healer, and you spent more points in magicka, then obviously Focused Charge(morphed to Explosive Charge AOE) is better idea. First, you will deal way more damage, as it deals magick damage. Second, as magicka focused character, you will recover your magicka faster then stamina.
I have healer templar and im also using staff and 1h/shield, but my 1h/shield is used only for passives, block, and heavy/light attack to allow me to regen magicka during combat. Not using 1(have all tho) 1h/shield skills, only magicka skills, works great for me, with right rotation(light/heavy attacks i mean by that) you can easy fight 4-6 VR mobs, while i heard some classes are having problems with 2...

RangerChad

I prefer the shield charge because it stuns enemies if I am fighting a boss in vet rank that can be knocked down, the skill allows me some time recover stamina and keep the boss pinned down, if I don't have time to make space between us I use reverberating bash, but sometimes it won't work for me for whatever reason, probably since I have bad luck? hehe who knows but when it does work, it's great 10 seconds of freedom.